In the ninth inning of the Yankees-Mariners game
there was a particularly strange replay ruling. The play on the field was ruled
a home run and there was a runner on first base. The umpires deliberated and
ruled that it was a double and that the runner from first base should score. I
don’t see how this makes any sense at all.
How can they assume the runner from first would score? If
you go back and watch the replay it’s clear that the runner was rounding third as
the ball came into the infield so how can the umpires assume the runner
would’ve scored?
If I were the umpire in this situation I would’ve awarded
each player two bases and had runners on second and third. This has to be the
call in this situation because you can’t assume the runner would’ve scored. The
play had been signaled a home run and the runner from first wasn’t running hard
so none of what happened during the play after that should be taken into
account. If baseball’s interpreted like this then a ground rule double would
always come down to a subjective call of whether the runner from first would’ve
scored or not.
I’ve tried to research whether there is any precedent ruling
like this and could not find anything. It seems like if the MLB put a replay
system in place they couldn’t possibly just let the umpires subjectively put
runner where they think they would’ve went. That’s a stupid system and the
ground rule double rule completely contradicts it. I thought it was incorrectly
called and I think we’re going to see a lot more calls like this made as the
MLB (hopefully) incorporates a rational replay system.
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